Efka (he/him)So, is mastodon.social blocked on this instance?
Host@nopunincluded yes, it is
@host I understand the decision, and don't wish to challenge it. I do find it sad that we've removed access this hard. Is this a temporary measure or permanent?
J C Lawrence@nopunincluded @host IIRC the list of blocked servers can be found on the about page.
@nopunincluded the decision doesnt have to be permanent, and thats a valid statement for a few other instance we have blocked.
That said, with mastodon.social it is more complex, mostly for historical reason.
It is also not moderated (well moderated automatically which we have seen being weaponised agaisnt a black user already).
Federating with it, means being m.s de facto moderation team.
Lots of moderation feature are missing because m.s admin decided agaisnt it.
@host thank you for explaining. I understand the complexity of drawing the line between moderation and inclusivity. It's hard to gauge how exclusive you need to be to be effectively moderated. I'm sorry to hear someone on this instance was targeted, that's terrible.
@nopunincluded admins have the choice between "I put the finger in my ears so I cannot hear you" & "we now live in parallel universe that mostly interests but not for me and you".
In this case the owner of the instance also steer the software project.
And the reason we don't have many moderation option is because he doesnt want them.
(Even when the code is done, reviewed, tested, basically ready to go, he still doesnt want it.)
So we are left to block a large chunk of new people, sadly.
Elizabeth Hargrave@nopunincluded I am in exactly the same boat. I totally support the idea that some people want this small, very protected corner of the internet, but I think if I want any hope of communicating with the diversity of people I'm used to I may need to switch instances.
@elizhargrave yup, and switching instances introduces the added complexity of missing out on toots from the many wonderful people here.
Tony Miller@nopunincluded @elizhargrave I was just talking with @425suzanne about exactly this earlier this week…
PinothyJ@nopunincluded @elizhargrave There is Dice.camp, but that is RPG flavoured rather than the broad brush of Tabletop.
PDXBOTC@nopunincluded @elizhargrave it’s surprising to me how there does appear to be a solution to this (that doesn’t involve having multiple accounts on different instances). There has got to be a tech solution to this problem in the works.
Matthias Nagy@elizhargrave @nopunincluded Come both to brettspiel.space. You can still follow everyone on tabletop.social and still have no blocked instances.